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Blogging and Blog Tips

Missionary blog tip: Why Blog?

16 January 2008

Dr Mike of Kids’ Doc in Jos recently (ok, this past September) created a presentation about blogging for missionaries entitled “Why Blog?”.  He graciously agreed to share it with us.  Unfortunately, my computer skills are limited and I couldn’t figure out how to include it here.  But – probably all the better to see it [...]

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First things

25 September 2007

Just for fun, I wanted to find out how people started their blogs.  These are taken at random.  Of course, some people may have deleted their first posts, or else added a newsletter later on.  But this is what I came up with…
First, the “we’re finally blogging” posts.
Finally:  Here we are just now entering bloggerdom [...]

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Link! – Missionary Blog Tip #11

17 September 2007

Ok, so we all know how great it is when people link to your site. Especially people who are interested in you, or who have sites related to yours.  Those links help you build relationships with other people interested in what you’re doing – and, more importantly, in what God is doing.  If we do [...]

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Hello? Please respond… ? – Missionary blog tip #10

11 July 2007

If you allow comments on your blog, I think you really need to have a way to respond to them.
First, you really should allow comments if at all possible.  I understand there are a few people that just can't do it – they have limited internet access, perhaps, or someone else is posting their letters [...]

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Missionary communication

9 June 2007

Recently this website was mentioned in an article of Lausanne World Pulse.  The article was A Call to Kingdom Journalism: Rediscovering the Integral Role of Communication in Mission by Steve Knight.  I encourage you to read it and give it some thought.  It’s good to think every so often about how we communicate.
It is important [...]

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All in a feed – Missionary blog tip #9

15 May 2007

Everyone needs to have a good, functioning RSS feed. Of course, everyone doesn’t.  But assuming you do, one question keeps coming up – do you publish your entire post via news feed, or just a summary?
For a long time I was a part of the summary crowd, and the logic went like this:  You want [...]

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what's thru your window?

7 February 2007

Amanda from following an unknown path had a neat idea. She decided to show the world what she could see through her windows in Taiwan.  Today she posted part 4 of the series.
I would love to see what missionaries can see through their windows.  Not only is the scenery (of lack thereof) interesting, it’s also [...]

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Keep your blog alive in 2007- Missionary blog tip #8

11 January 2007

When I was doing my recent feature on A year of new blogs, I was sad to discover that many of the blogs that had started in 2006 had also died in 2006.  That’s really too bad.  Other blogs have continued – and we can now look back on almost a year of interesting, and [...]

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Comments scattering in the wind?

20 September 2006

How do you know who else has commented on your comment?  How do you remember what comments you’ve left, and where?  Technology is rushing to catch up with the exploding world of blogging.  One of the first to really address these issues related to commenting is cocomment.  Using cocomment, you can keep track of all [...]

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One thing at a time – Missionary blog tip #7

20 July 2006

It’s a great temptation, and almost everybody does it. You haven’t blogged for a while, so you have just a few little tidbits of unrelated information to get across.  It’s the famous “This and that” post – the one called “Random notes” or entitled “Bits of news”.  It’s exactly what the experts tell you to [...]

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